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Prom Night (1980)/Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)/Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)/Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil (1992)

Without a doubt one of the strangest of the slasher film cycles is the Prom Night series, which kicks off with a decent, by-the-numbers genre entry, stalls out, unexpectedly resurrects itself, plunges into horror-comedy, and doubles back to slasher while … Continue reading

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Black Christmas (1974)

The creaking of a rocking chair. A tune hummed very softly. Corpses strewn about an attic. The girl in the chair, with the defaced plastic doll in her arm, has long ago been smothered by a plastic bag, and she … Continue reading

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The Pit (1981)

When I began dating my wife in the mid-90’s, she talked often of a horror film shot in her hometown of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, when she was a child. We hung out in Beaver Dam all the time on visits … Continue reading

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